Is Dodd in the presidency? No? Then he's had much fewer opportunities to fuck up on such a massive scale. Frankly I'm surprised things aren't worse geven the quality of most candidates.
In that it's more corrupt than Jersey, why yes, they are. Why anybody would vote for a modern chicago politician backed by a Daley, especially when he spouts off on being a different kind of politician that normal, purely amazes me.
*sighs* A tyrannical government certainly does not fall under the category of *free State*, a *free State* being a country in which the will of the people is not subsumed to that of the State except in a very limited set of matters. As such, the 2nd most certainly does advocate usurping the government if and when it crosses the line. Which we're nowhere near yet although that's certainly the direction we're headed. Not surprising when people are willing to vote for a completely empty suit who had a meteoric rise in Chicago politics which does NOT happen without some very powerful people behind the wheels greasing the tracks.
The RKBA's final use is a RESET button. It would be like flashing your computer to a clean install with the capability to back up only a very small percentage of your data.
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Firstly, there's a slight difference between religiousness and fanaticism. Secondly, the problem has much less to do with religion and much more with the collapse of our education system since the early 1900s. The quality's been worse every decade, and things have gone quicker into the shitter with the introduction of the Dept. of Ed.
Um, talking about sleaze and not directing it at the politician GROOMED by the Chicago Machine is rather fucking hilarious. Obama's meteoric rise in Illinois politics DOES NOT HAPPEN unless certain very powerful people want it to.
Clearly you have not learned the lessons of magic from Discworld. The most important part of being a powerful figure is knowing when NOT to use your power. Threat of power, non-violent influence, all fine and dandy. Actual power, in violence are just plain money, not so much except in situations which truly call for it. Which in reality are rather few compared to the amount upon which that power gets used.
Considering that the US has a much higher knife-based homicide rate per capita than any other first world country as well, somehow I'm thinking it's not the guns. Moreover, when you separate population by race, things get really interesting. Notably the white american population has a similar murder rate to the UK.
Actually, they were prosecuted under violations of the Geneva Conventions, none of which that the US has ratified does any person in Guantanamo fall under. Under the Geneva Conventions, forcible questioning is a war crime.
Except outing VP wasn't a crime at all. The only 'crime' committed was perjury. But it was perjury about the exact date person X talked to Y in an informal setting about a year or more earlier. And the date given was less than 10 days off of the supposed date it occurred. However, the supposed date it occurred was again, from memory, given to the court. Most interestingly, when the defense attempted to bring in a memory expert, as in an MD, the judge denied the request. On appeal, this very probably would have been grounds for a new case. However, the judge was going to deny person X his freedom until after the appeal, so Bush commuted person X's sentence. This means it is impossible for person X to appeal the verdict.
Yes, and? As a percentage of actual aid, how much is 23 billion? Given the time spent there, I'm betting well less than 5%. In which case your accusation of the previous poster is nothing more than a base canard.
No, it means when you have two other rich(relatively speaking) countries actively attempting to destabilize a newly formed democracy in an area where democracy is crossways with the tribal structure and no tradition is in place for it by inciting the two main religious groups to war with each other, without some outside stabilizing influence it has a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding. With the outside influnce, and enough time, it could very well succeed.
German POWs in WWII also FOLLOWED the Geneva conventions during the war. The US has never violated the Geneva conventions it is signatory to that have been ratified by the Senate.
Not really, the problem is that without opening the nuclear option, and even with the nuclear option, the amount of SK civvies who would die from simple artillery bombardment would be absolutely horrific. Easily into the hundreds of thousands, possibly into the millions.
Of course, the only reason he got elected in the first place was because the Brits and the French decided that the republic should pay for the sins of the previous govt. and instituted grievous reparations upon them, all the while being warned by the Americans that this was a bad idea. The economy subsequently collapsed under the weight of the reparations, and people began seriously searching for pipe dreams. Along came Hitler, with the pipe dream of revenge and German supremacy. Is it any real surprise people voted for him?
Credible sources? Were the sources french perhaps? Cause those sources were sooo good at reporting the Jenin incident. ALL info from a war zone is incredibly suspect unless you can find at least 10 minutes of unedited footage that takes in the entire scene. As for 'eyewitness reports' well, ask 10 different witnesses who committed a crime and you'll get 10 different descriptions. And that's without assuming that some of them are trying to lie.
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Bullshit, the ACLU doesn't love the constitution, they love their specific pet bits of it. Always have.
Definitely a grease spot in a cave somewhere.
Is Dodd in the presidency? No? Then he's had much fewer opportunities to fuck up on such a massive scale. Frankly I'm surprised things aren't worse geven the quality of most candidates.
In that it's more corrupt than Jersey, why yes, they are. Why anybody would vote for a modern chicago politician backed by a Daley, especially when he spouts off on being a different kind of politician that normal, purely amazes me.
*sighs* A tyrannical government certainly does not fall under the category of *free State*, a *free State* being a country in which the will of the people is not subsumed to that of the State except in a very limited set of matters. As such, the 2nd most certainly does advocate usurping the government if and when it crosses the line. Which we're nowhere near yet although that's certainly the direction we're headed. Not surprising when people are willing to vote for a completely empty suit who had a meteoric rise in Chicago politics which does NOT happen without some very powerful people behind the wheels greasing the tracks.
The RKBA's final use is a RESET button. It would be like flashing your computer to a clean install with the capability to back up only a very small percentage of your data.
Firstly, there's a slight difference between religiousness and fanaticism. Secondly, the problem has much less to do with religion and much more with the collapse of our education system since the early 1900s. The quality's been worse every decade, and things have gone quicker into the shitter with the introduction of the Dept. of Ed.
Um, talking about sleaze and not directing it at the politician GROOMED by the Chicago Machine is rather fucking hilarious. Obama's meteoric rise in Illinois politics DOES NOT HAPPEN unless certain very powerful people want it to.
Clearly you have not learned the lessons of magic from Discworld. The most important part of being a powerful figure is knowing when NOT to use your power. Threat of power, non-violent influence, all fine and dandy. Actual power, in violence are just plain money, not so much except in situations which truly call for it. Which in reality are rather few compared to the amount upon which that power gets used.
Reading comprehension. Gain it. Obama is not the actor in the post. An unnamed is.
Except, of course, most will change could to will out of malicious intent or ignorance of source.
School account is run through hotmail.
Considering that the US has a much higher knife-based homicide rate per capita than any other first world country as well, somehow I'm thinking it's not the guns. Moreover, when you separate population by race, things get really interesting. Notably the white american population has a similar murder rate to the UK.
Actually, they were prosecuted under violations of the Geneva Conventions, none of which that the US has ratified does any person in Guantanamo fall under. Under the Geneva Conventions, forcible questioning is a war crime.
Um, did you actually read the link you posted? All Cheney did was express his approval. He certainly never implicated it was used widely.
Except outing VP wasn't a crime at all. The only 'crime' committed was perjury. But it was perjury about the exact date person X talked to Y in an informal setting about a year or more earlier. And the date given was less than 10 days off of the supposed date it occurred. However, the supposed date it occurred was again, from memory, given to the court. Most interestingly, when the defense attempted to bring in a memory expert, as in an MD, the judge denied the request. On appeal, this very probably would have been grounds for a new case. However, the judge was going to deny person X his freedom until after the appeal, so Bush commuted person X's sentence. This means it is impossible for person X to appeal the verdict.
Yes, and? As a percentage of actual aid, how much is 23 billion? Given the time spent there, I'm betting well less than 5%. In which case your accusation of the previous poster is nothing more than a base canard.
No, it means when you have two other rich(relatively speaking) countries actively attempting to destabilize a newly formed democracy in an area where democracy is crossways with the tribal structure and no tradition is in place for it by inciting the two main religious groups to war with each other, without some outside stabilizing influence it has a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding. With the outside influnce, and enough time, it could very well succeed.
Of course, in Germany there wasn't an active non-german terrorist component being actively supported by two neighboring countries.
German POWs in WWII also FOLLOWED the Geneva conventions during the war. The US has never violated the Geneva conventions it is signatory to that have been ratified by the Senate.
Not really, the problem is that without opening the nuclear option, and even with the nuclear option, the amount of SK civvies who would die from simple artillery bombardment would be absolutely horrific. Easily into the hundreds of thousands, possibly into the millions.
Eh, the Eurocrats and Brits'll get there well before us.
Of course, the only reason he got elected in the first place was because the Brits and the French decided that the republic should pay for the sins of the previous govt. and instituted grievous reparations upon them, all the while being warned by the Americans that this was a bad idea. The economy subsequently collapsed under the weight of the reparations, and people began seriously searching for pipe dreams. Along came Hitler, with the pipe dream of revenge and German supremacy. Is it any real surprise people voted for him?
Good job picking the most advanced manufacturing country in europe and comparing it to it's equivalent in the US.
Credible sources? Were the sources french perhaps? Cause those sources were sooo good at reporting the Jenin incident. ALL info from a war zone is incredibly suspect unless you can find at least 10 minutes of unedited footage that takes in the entire scene. As for 'eyewitness reports' well, ask 10 different witnesses who committed a crime and you'll get 10 different descriptions. And that's without assuming that some of them are trying to lie.